Table-Land
in physical geography, a plateau; a plain existing at some con- TABLE-LAND, in physical geography, siderable elevation above the sea. Volcanic rocks often make such table-lands, as in central India; so do limestones.
Or a sea bed or a lake bed, or a great stretch of country, may be upheaved.
The chief table-lands are in the Old World, extensive, low-lying plains rather than table-lands characterizing the New.
One occupies about half the surface of Asia, being 5,500 miles from E. to W., and from 700 to 2,000 miles from N. to S. In Europe there are table-lands in Bavaria. African table-lands exist in Morocco, Abyssinia, the region of the Victoria Nyanza, etc. In North America there are plateaux along the Pacific, Labrador, etc., and in South America, in Brazil and the adjacent countries.